The Gibson ES-175 is arguably the most popular jazz guitar of all time and has featured on literally thousands of recordings over the years. With its clean cut looks, iconic design and superb playability and tone, you can immediately see why it has the status it does amongst guitarists. Introduced in 1949, the ES-175 was […]

Gibson L4CEN – The Gibson L-4 was first introduced in 1911 as an acoustic rhythm guitar with an oval sound hole (exposing the Spanish roots of the Electric Spanish (ES) range) and was most notably used by the legendary jazz guitarist Eddie Lang. Our story therefore begins with an acoustic jazz guitar of Gibson’s golden […]

Solid State Logic – Chris Jenkins told us a good story today about The Skids top 10 hit ‘Into the Valley’. Chris was working as a sound engineer at Townhouse studios when Stuart (Adamson) left the session to go back to Scotland in something of a hurry, and before the recording of the album had […]